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Watching a 2 hour Sorkin movie is enough for me no way can I handle how ever many episodes the Newsroom is

 

I thoroughly enjoyed how bad the show was.

 

Maybe consider watching more than just a clip

 

The only Sorkin I clip that matters.

 

I didn't know people dislike Sorkin, I unironically enjoy The West Wing

 

Yeah, I really love Sports Night and The West Wing. Loved The Newsroom while it was airing too, but I get how that one especially wouldn't hold up. Studio 60 is a mess with good moments. I wish he would go back to TV considering his recent movie work is far from his best.

 

I don't dislike his stuff, but it is super cornball aimed at white liberals that want to feel smart. Sports Night and The West Wing are very nostalgic and comforting for me.

 

He’s a good writer and also a bit of a tool

 

I think there is a very good argument to be made that he writes women really poorly and he definitely recycles lines of dialogue very frequently in his stuff. I think the West Wing sucks ass and was actively damaging for an entire generation of voters, Newsroom is just annoying and Chicago 7 or whatever was dumb.

 

He can be dismissive about writing women. I saw him at a Q&A and he was asked about the critique of his female characters and gave a non-answer about having daughter so he thinks about women.

 

Don’t take this advice

 

normally i would agree with that advice but i can only think of a few shows where watching more than just clips seems like a worse idea than the newsroom, a show that seemed written to exist solely in clip form

 

I do think “The Social Network” is a masterpiece.

 

That has more to do with Fincher than Sorkin imo

 

yep. going back before that, you have west wing and a few good men and that's about it

 

I don’t mind him, but I hate how basically every character he writes comes off as “the smartest guy in the room”. They always have that perfect little rejoinder for every conversation. It ends up feeling like a bunch on slight variations of the same person talking to each other. It was particularly grating in the Trial of the Chicago Seven.

 

I like Moneyball a lot.

Also West Wing can be laughably bad at points, but there is still something about it that makes it watchable despite that, that I think Newsroom lacks.

 

Nah, The West Wing is great.

But Sports Night is peak.

 

My wife and I watched the four James Acaster specials on Netflix. He’s one of my new favorites now.

 

Hes very good. Watch him on Taskmaster or on Would I Lie To You

 

You should check out his special “Cold Lasagna Hate Myself 1999”, which you can unfortunately only find on Vimeo:

Watch James Acaster: Cold Lasagne Hate Myself 1999 Online | Vimeo On Demand

It’s fantastic.

 

For everyone's amusement

 

Waco The Aftermath is soooo good

 

New Queer Eye starting off strong with the first few episodes

 

It's a good season. Speedy was my favorite.